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HPG Report 25 Hpg May 2007 Humanitarian Policy Group HPG Report 25 hpg May 2007 Humanitarian Policy Group Remittances during crises Implications for humanitarian response Edited by Kevin Savage and Paul Harvey Overseas Development Institute About the author Paul Harvey is a Research Fellow in the Humanitarian Policy Group (HPG) at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Kevin Savage is a Research Officer with HPG. Humanitarian Policy Group Overseas Development Institute 111 Westminster Bridge Road London SE1 7JD United Kingdom Tel: +44(0) 20 7922 0300 Fax: +44(0) 20 7922 0399 Website: www.odi.org.uk/hpg Email: [email protected] ISBN: 978 0 85003 846 0 © Overseas Development Institute, 2007 HPG Report 25 crc 9/5/07 12:32 pm Page i Contents Acknowledgements iii Chapter 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Methodology 1 Chapter 2 Remittances: an overview 3 2.1 Remittance trends and mechanisms 3 2.2 Remittances, development and migration 4 2.3 Encouraging remittances 6 2.4 Conflict and crime 7 2.5 Chapter summary 8 Chapter 3 Remittances and crises 9 Chapter 4 Case studies of emergencies and crises 15 4.1 Remittances case study: Gonaives, Haiti 15 4.2 Remittances case study: the Sri Lankan coast 19 4.3 Remittances case study: Aceh, Indonesia 22 4.4 Remittances case study: Northern Pakistan 25 4.5 Remittances case study: Darfur, Sudan 27 4.6 Remittances case study: Hargeisa, Somalia 31 Chapter 5 Synthesis of case study findings 35 5.1 Implications for humanitarian actors 36 5.2 Conclusion 41 Bibliography 43 i HPG Report 25 crc 9/5/07 12:32 pm Page ii HPG Report 25 HPG REPORT ii HPG Report 25 crc 9/5/07 12:32 pm Page iii Remittances during crises HPG REPORT Acknowledgements The authors would like to thank all of the many people who helped them in carrying out the research for this report, in particular: in Hargeisa, Ahmed Ismail Dahir, Ayaan Hussein Elmi, Dahir Isaaq Jibril, Khadra Abiib Mohamed, Khadra Ahmed Mohamed, Mahdi Ahmed Cabdi, Mohamed Abdillahi Abdirahman ‘Caynab’ and Dahabshiil Hargeisa; in Haiti, the Oxfam UK office, Yolette Etienne, Luc St. Vil, Parnel Denis and the CARE office, Jouthe Joseph, Eddy Joseph, Jean Gary Sanon, Erode Mondesir, Ronald Ledix, Herold Jean, Samuel Derivaois and Boris Machand; and in Pakistan, the CRS and Oxfam offices, particularly Alex Causton and Heloise Troc. The authors would also like to thank all those who commented on the background papers and draft report, especially Nicholas Van Hear, Myrtle Perera, Ramani Jayasundere, Monica Smith, Laura Hammond, Cindy Horst, Manuel Orozco, James Darcy and Victoria Wheeler. iii HPG Report 25 crc 9/5/07 12:32 pm Page iv HPG Report 25 HPG REPORT iv HPG Report 25 crc 9/5/07 12:32 pm Page 1 Remittances during crises HPG REPORT Chapter 1 Introduction Remittances, or migrants sending money home, are an There has also been a tendency to neglect the importance of important part of many people’s lives around the world. Globally, migration in livelihoods before, during and after crises, or to remittances are worth hundreds of billions of dollars. This means see it purely in negative terms. A focus on remittances helps to that they are substantially larger than flows of foreign direct demonstrate the potentially positive value of migration and investment and aid (Mohapatra et al., 2006). Unlike other mobility, and to direct attention to the diversity and complexity financial flows, remittances go directly into family incomes, and of people’s livelihoods (Hammond et al., 2006). Understanding thus have an immediate and direct impact on the livelihoods of the significance of remittances in pre-crisis livelihoods, and receiving households. Relatively little is known, however, about how they are affected by disasters, should be an important part the role that remittances play in crises. They are thought to be of needs assessments, but is often still neglected. The report counter-cyclical, increasing during periods of crisis and therefore also examines the potential role of humanitarian actors in playing an important role in enabling some people to survive supporting the re-establishment of remittance flows following during disasters, and recover after them. In countries affected by disasters, for example by investing more in family tracing, and long-term crises, migration is often a key coping or survival assisting in restoring communications systems. It argues that strategy leading to large diasporas which play an important role this could be an important contribution to processes of survival in sustaining the livelihoods of those who remain. and recovery. A better understanding of the role that remittances play in Chapter 2 examines basic conceptual and definitional issues, crises has potentially important implications for humanitarian and briefly summarises the development literature on actors. There may be ways that humanitarian actors can remittances and migration. Chapter 3 focuses on the existing support remittance flows and draw on remittance delivery literature on the role of remittances in crises. Chapter 4 presents systems to provide assistance. Remittances may also be the six case studies undertaken as part of this study. The report disrupted during crises in ways that affect levels of argues that remittances have important implications for vulnerability. This study makes a start in analysing the role humanitarian actors; these are discussed in Chapter 5. that remittances play in crisis, how patterns of receipt and delivery change and adapt during and after disasters and how 1.1 Methodology humanitarian actors can better understand and, where appropriate, support remittance flows. Case studies of A review of the broad literature on remittances in developing remittances in Somaliland, Haiti, Aceh, Sri Lanka, Sudan and countries, with a particular focus on their role in crises, was Pakistan were carried out. This report summarises the findings carried out. Case studies were conducted in a number of crisis from these case studies and draws on a wider review of contexts and background papers published on remittances in literature (Young, 2006; Fagen, 2006; Lindley, 2006; Suleri and Haiti, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Somalia, Sudan and Pakistan. The Savage, 2006; Wu, 2006; Deshingkar and Aheeyar, 2006). scope of these studies varied. The studies on Sri Lanka, Haiti and Pakistan were specifically commissioned by this research Remittances are an important component of people’s own project, with the studies of Somalia, Indonesia and Sudan capacities and efforts to survive and recover from disasters. drawing on and complementing existing ongoing research. There has always been a tendency to undervalue the Again, the scope of these varied, with the case study in capacities of disaster-affected populations, which are often Indonesia based on relatively short and rapid field research, portrayed as helpless and vulnerable, but people’s own efforts and both the Sudan and Somalia case studies making use of are often crucial to survival, a point made again in the joint substantive field research. evaluation of the Indian Ocean tsunami response (TEC, 2006; Woodrow, 1989). Recognising the importance of remittances There was not scope in the field work to attempt to measure can be part of the process of better appreciating people’s own the overall importance and volume of remittances in particular contribution to survival. As Horst (2006b: 35) argues: ‘what crises. Purposively selected individuals and groups were remittances and other transnational flows of goods and ideas interviewed by researchers using a semi-structured interview do most importantly, in sharp contrast to the established guide. Some quantitative measures were taken: a small discourse on refugees as passive recipients, is that they give survey of households in the Pakistan case study gave a good refugees a greater level of power and choice’. Often, they quantification of the differences between receiving and non- exercise this choice by moving away from refugee camps to receiving households in the study villages, and the survey in urban centres. This in turn provides a more balanced picture of Hargeisa provided a broadly indicative picture of receiving the importance of aid and emergency relief, which can households. However, the research was predominantly sometimes be over-stated (Harvey and Lind, 2005). qualitative. 1 HPG Report 25 crc 9/5/07 12:32 pm Page 2 HPG Report 25 HPG REPORT Box 1: The case studies Somalia. This study built on ongoing PhD research to synthesise existing insights on remittance dynamics in Somali society, and Six case studies were published as part of the report, focusing conduct a survey of remittance recipients in Hargeisa. on Sudan, Haiti, Pakistan, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Somalia. Remittances were seen as a mechanism for coping with income These have been published in more detail in background shocks. They helped people manage in refugee camps and papers, but are summarised briefly here and in more detail in return to Hargeisa and fed into social networks of support to the Chapter 4. They represent a rich body of information about the poor and to rural areas during times of drought. role that remittances play in a range of different disaster contexts. Aceh, Indonesia. Based on interviews conducted in Aceh, Malaysia and Singapore, this study traces the role of remittances Darfur, Sudan. Drawing on in-depth and detailed livelihoods following the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. Both formal and research carried out by Tufts University, this study illustrates informal remittance channels were badly affected, but recovered the direct and indirect effects of conflict on migration and quickly and played an important role in recovery. Aid agencies remittance flows. In previous crises, remittances were a could perhaps have done more to assist family tracing, re- strategy that people could turn to when farming and herding establishing communications and restoring identity documents. came under threat. During this conflict, remittances have been hugely disrupted due to insecurity, border closures, Sri Lanka.
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